Hanna v. Prewitt

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

This litigation primarily involves the proper construction of certain clauses of the will of Kizia W. Allen, who died in 1910. When the will was written in 1896 Mrs. Allen had three daughters, her only children, and, after providing for the payment of her debts, and legacies of five hundred dollars to each of them, she gave in the third clause of her will in equal shares to her three children.

“Mattie Catherine Hanna, wife “"of Charles Hanna, ‘Annie Lee Allen, and Joe Skillman Allen, all the rest and residue and remainder of my estate, real,…